The scope of anthropology [[electronic resource] ] : Maurice Godelier's work in context / / edited by Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkézoff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910493243203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-49660-6; 9786613591838; 0-85745-332-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Collana: Methodology and history in anthropology ; ; v. 23
• Altri autori (Persone): DoussetLaurent; TcherkézoffSerge
• Disciplina: 306.01
• Soggetti: Ethnology - Philosophy; Ethnology - Methodology; Ethnology - Melanesia; Big man (Melanesia); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Scope of Anthropology; Methodology and History in Anthropology; The Scope of Anthropology Maurice Godelier's Work in Context; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Publications by Maurice Godelier; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature-culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretica

The politics of consumption [[electronic resource] ] : material culture and citizenship in Europe and America / / edited by Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459095803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford [Great Britain], : Berg, 2001
• ISBN: 1-282-90781-6; 9786612907814; 1-84788-110-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Collana: Leisure, consumption, and culture
• Altri autori (Persone): DauntonM. J (Martin J.); HiltonMatthew
• Disciplina: 306.3; 339.4709
• Soggetti: Consumption (Economics) - Political aspects; Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Material Politics: An Introduction; 2 What is Rum? The Politics of Consumption in the French Revolution; 3 Social Opulence, Private Asceticism: Ideas of Consumption in Early Socialist Thought; 4 The Material Politics of Natural Monopoly: Consuming Gas in Victorian Britain; 5 Scotch Drapers and the Politics of Modernity: Gender, Class and National Identity in the Victorian Tally Trade; 6 'National Taste?' Citizenship Law, State Form, and Everyday Aesthetics in Modern France and Germany, 1920-1940; 7 Bread, Milk and Democracy: Consumption and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain 8 Enticement and Deprivation: The Regulation of Consumption in Pre-War Nazi Germany; 9 Negotiating Consumption in a Dictatorship: Consumption Politics in the GDR in the 1950's and 1960's; 10 Citizens and Consumers in the United States in the Century of Mass Consumption; 11 The Politics of Plenty in the Twentieth-Century United States; 12 Consumer Politics in Post-war ; Britain; 13 Strategies of Consumer-Group Mobilization: France and Germany in the 1970's; 14 Corralling Consumer Culture: Shifting Rationales for American State Intervention in Free Markets Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores the emergence of the rational consuming individual in modern economic thought; the moral and ideological values consumers have attached to their relationships with commodities; and the practices and theories of consumer citizenship within the state. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.